Mole Myths......true or false

[moley 115]

My old headkeeper used to say that if you found a dead mole on a footpath or woodland track it meant that a fox was about.

Don't know if this was just to encourage us to spend more time on vermin control or if it has any biological truth.

 

Cats and foxes catch them and play with them without eating them sometimes - same goes for shrews. They must taste funny or something?

 

OTC

 

apparently they taste bitter so foxes etc dont eat them, i know my cat never did

 

 

WELL LADS ,

 

I DONT KNOW ABOUT THE TASTE THEORY .................... AS I OFTEN FED MY FERRETS ON MOLES AND THEY READILY EAT THEM

 

ALL THE BEST

 

 

DUCKWING

Yep .A friend feeds his freds skinned moles . Tis true though that water shrews have a toxic saliva and maybe other shrews give something nasty off if they have been grooming themselves . Also true that foxes and cats seem keen enough to kill moles but distain from eating em .Seems ferrets might have had the fussyness bred out of them .

used to loose loads of traps to badgers each year , very few to foxes , badgers will eat moles , foxes like to roll on em

[Rolfe 2]

Yes.........badgers are the worst for stealing traps that have a catch in them........sometimes you can find old traps outside badger earths......where they have been thrown out when they clean the bedding out. As for old coins.........yes i once found an old Penny in a mole hill.........wouldn't mind a few gold coins though.

[Guest foxyjo.]

I was told that if you put human piddle down a mole hill it will make them leave. I don't know whether it works or not, as I haven't a mole problem - but the old lady who lives next to me tells me she collects her urine for this very purpose...

[comanche 3,041]

Ah Moley . You might 've shed some light . Suppose Badgers and ferrets being related might explain a similar taste for moles . Just an idea

 

Long unaccounted -for Roman coins popping out of the ground ! The police have been trying for years to put a team of moles into the underground money laundering trade

[moley 115]

Yes.........badgers are the worst for stealing traps that have a catch in them........sometimes you can find old traps outside badger earths......where they have been thrown out when they clean the bedding out. As for old coins.........yes i once found an old Penny in a mole hill.........wouldn't mind a few gold coins though.

 

once found a set of broken false teeth in the soil of a mole hill

[zig zag wanderer 0]

Apparently Herons eat moles.